Unpopular Entertainment Opinions • Page 60

God, most of the movies on my list are super dark and bleak and depressing. Ugh.

I need to watch more uplifting movies, lol

 

1. Magic Mike XXL
2. Magic Mike XXL
3. Magic Mike XXL
4. Magic Mike XXL
5. Magic Mike XXL

 

Frances Ha
Mistress America
Lady Bird

there may have been movies that Greta Gerwig didn't write but who knows

 

All I know is Edge of Tormorrow would be on my list.

 

I just tried to think of 10 from this decade quickly that would make my list (Interestingly, I kept picking movies from before 2010, like There Will Be Blood, The Prestige, etc.):

The Last Jedi
Hunt For The Wilderpeople
Zero Dark Thirty
The Grand Budapest Hotel
About Time
Blade Runner 2049
Fruitvale Station
The Grey
Annihilation
Inception

 

I still need to see The Grey. Been on my list for a long time.

 

Inception feels like it came out a million years ago. And still is one of my most appropriate contributions to this thread.

 

When I was trying to pull 10 of the best movies this decade out of my ass real quick I kept thinking Inception came out before The Prestige.

 

@bachna84 where would Saw 7 place on your list?

 

depends what list we’re talking about

 

I’m so sick of hearing people say that Party Down is an underrated or a not well-known show.

If you’ve been on the internet and are even vaguely familiar with TV discussions or anything like that, you’ve been aware of that show for nearly a decade.

It’s a great show and I fully back and recommend it. But it’s not some super niche diamond in the rough.

Stop trying to sound cool!

/rant, sorry but that shit bothers me so much for some reason, haha

 

Where are you hanging out that Party Down comes up enough to form that angry of an opinion??

 

Haha, I know I know, it's a pretty irrational annoyance to have but I feel like any time that show is ever brought up anywhere, in person or online, people fall over themselves to make sure it's "known" how unknown the show is.

 

Dave Eggers is a terrible writer

Spike Jonze only makes movies about privileged people being so privileged that they can only experience inconvenience through fantasy or sci-fi scenarios

Any of that "Our lives are awesome but what if they weren't" shit drives me straight up the wall

 

I’ve only read The Wild Things but I know people worship A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

 

I haven’t seen Where the Wild Things Are, but I think one of the themes of his other movies is that depression and loneliness, etc... can totally encompass you regardless of how much money you have or successful you are and that is a valid and real problem worth exploring.

 

It’s a criticism also thrown at Sofia Coppola and... fair enough, if you don’t want to watch fictional rich people be sad. But they’re both great.

 

speaking of my hot take is I'm not sure I want Sofia Coppola and Wes Anderson writing characters that aren't white and bougie nor do I trust them to

 

Inside llewyn Davis is the best Coen brothers movie

 

Was gonna post this in the WW thread but then I saw this thread right below it...

New poster is UGLY.

 

Wes Anderson definitely shouldn’t. Darjeeling is a mess. He also cast an Italian-American as an Indian character in Grand Budapest, which, as much as I enjoy Tony Revolori, is not great.

It’s an interesting debate. Sofia Coppola’s movies are so specifically white that I would definitely rather she stick to her area of making movies about rich white people than attempt to tell a non-white story because, for all the trappings that come along with that, she has something to say about the experience too.

I think I’m less interested in white filmmakers feeling responsible to tell non-white stories and more interested in amplifying non-white creators. Like, while acknowledging that Sofia Coppola has her career largely because of an enormous, privileged background that extends beyond her whiteness and into literally being the daughter of one of the most acclaimed filmmakers of all time, I think that there’s room for her as a female filmmaker whose movies have genuinely great parts for actresses and tells female stories, while also looking for non-male filmmakers who don’t come from nepotism, or finding the next Barry Jenkins, Ryan Coogler, Ava DuVernay, etc, to better tell non-white, non-male stories.

A lot of this would also be helped if people got more into world cinema because there are so many non-white movies being made every year, most Americans, even many of the ones demanding more diversity in film (which I agree is absolutely necessary), just don’t look for it.

 

Bottle Rocket is the best Wes Anderson movie

 

Bottle Rocket is a great film, but Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums are superior. Life Aquatic and Darjeeling Limited are in the same ballpark IMO.

 

100%

 

Agreed in a big way. I’d rather be seeing films coming from different voices in general over questionable portrayals from those two, not that they should be totally let off the hook on those issues. I think Coppola’s decision about The Beguiled was one of the most disappointing, just because she could have told a story that didn’t “require” writing out a WOC in the first place and yet chose to remake that specific one.

EDIT: Agreeing with Nathan, that is. Lol. I like Llewyn Davis, but I can’t go that far at all.